The key idea behind our framework is that life produces molecules with purpose, while nonliving chemistry does not. Cells ...

Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for ...

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly ...

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small ...

Early Mars seems to have had a protective atmosphere and liquid water in the form of oceans, rivers, and lakes. It may also ...

Many experts believe that aliens exist in the universe, with the key elements needed to sustain life found on comets, ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

I think the teachers were like, ‘Why is she talking about placentas?’” reflected Marie Munk in her studio at the Atlanta Contemporary on a chilly December morning. Munk, a resident studio artist since ...